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How Giorgia Meloni stabilised Italy
Giorgia Meloni has just marked her first year as Italy’s prime minister. When elected, she was described as a far-right…
Evacuate Gaza, but don’t call for a ceasefire
In every round of fighting between Israelis and Palestinians in the last 20 years, I have always wanted an immediate…
How long will Jeremy Hunt remain as chancellor?
As Jeremy Hunt prepares for next month’s autumn statement, the question being asked among Tory MPs isn’t so much what…
Can Starmer take the heat off the Labour ceasefire row?
Keir Starmer is under increasing pressure from Labour frontbenchers to change tack and back calls for a ceasefire in the…
Why the far left supports Hamas
It’s not often that Brits can say that the US is behind the UK. But in understanding the dynamic between the…
Ukraine’s sabotage tricks are causing concern in Washington
There has never been any doubt that Ukraine was the focus of an intelligence war as much as a physical…
Sunak has united conservatives but not how he hoped
Why are the Conservatives doing quite so badly? Smashed in two by-elections, dropping further in the polls, last days of…
Turkey has plenty to celebrate on its centenary
It’s difficult to imagine the Middle East having reason to celebrate. It happens, however, that today is the centenary of…
Activist curators are spoiling Britain’s museums
History, we’re told, is written by the victors. But nowadays, it seems it’s museum curators who really have the final…
In praise of Mike Pence
Mike Pence was never likely to win the Republican nomination for president, and today he recognized the inevitable. He withdrew…
Mike Pence drops out of the 2024 race
Former vice president Mike Pence is suspending his bid to be the 2024 GOP nominee for president of the United…
Tribeca’s fine dining l’abeille strives for comfort while pushing boundaries
When New York City restaurants closed their doors in March 2020, Rahul Saito and his husband Howard Chang took a…
Will Muslim voters really desert Labour?
It was always a question of when, not if, the Labour party would start tearing itself apart over the Israel-Hamas…
What Palestinian ‘solidarity’ marchers in the West don’t understand about Hamas
The atrocities committed by Hamas on 7 October have been revealed in their terrible savagery. There are accounts of dead…
How Britain failed Israel
That the United Kingdom’s central institutions are rotten, crumbling, captured and perhaps beyond recovery is not news, but the Gaza…
Why are Cambridge University’s librarians judging ‘problematic’ books?
Librarians across Cambridge University are on the look out. Their target, among the ten million-odd volumes in the main library…
Why Israel is set to invade Gaza
If reports this evening are correct, Israel is stepping up its ground operations in Gaza. The Jerusalem Post quotes IDF…
The mystery of the Covid Inquiry’s missing WhatsApps
It will no doubt be referred to in Whitehall circles in future as the ‘Jason Leitch protocol’. Scotland’s clinical director…
Is the business world sane again?
There are signs that woke capitalism is on the way out. Unilever, purveyor of the most right-on brand of the…
Boris Johnson joins GB News
He’s back! Since the Privileges Committee probe earlier this year, Boris Johnson has been unusually quiet by his colourful standards.…
Can Xi successfully stage manage Li Keqiang’s legacy?
Political deaths in China always carry the risk of social unrest. It was premier Zhou Enlai’s death that triggered the…
Why Putin hosted Hamas at the Kremlin
Since Hamas’s attack on Israel nearly three weeks ago, Vladimir Putin has been torn between who to back. It took the…
Let’s do away with EPC ratings
The Autumn Statement could propose offering discounts in stamp duty for homebuyers who take improvement to raise the Energy Performance…
Keir Starmer is losing grip on his Israel problem
Keir Starmer is losing grip on his party’s position on Israel. So far, over 25 Labour councillors have quit over…
Will the new US Speaker spell trouble for aid to Ukraine?
For the past few weeks, the US House Speaker’s chair has sat empty. Kevin McCarthy was ousted from the position…
